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Book Synopsis The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Download or read book The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester written by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedies, he lived a full but short life, dying in 1680 (with a dramatic deathbed renunciation of his atheism) at the age of thirty-three. This edition of Rochester's poetry, brilliantly annotated and introduced by David M. Vieth, has been a classic work for decades. Rochester had many admirers: Graham Greene wrote Lord Rochester's Monkey; Daniel Defoe quoted him often; Tennyson recited his poems; Voltaire admired his satire for 'energy and fire'; Goethe could quote him in English; and Hazlitt said that 'his verses cut and sparkle like diamonds' and that 'his contempt for everything that others respect almost amounts to sublimity'. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Selected Works by : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Download or read book Selected Works written by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the age of thirty-three. He was described by Samuel Johnson as having "blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness". Rochester was also one of the wittiest and most complex poets of the seventeenth century, writing comic verse, scurrilous satires and highly explicit erotica. With endless literary disguises, rhymes and alliteration, humour and humanity, Rochester's poems hold up a mirror to the extravagances and absurdities of his age.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by : Keith Walker
Download or read book John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester written by Keith Walker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text of Lucina’s Rape, Rochester’s adaptation of Fletcher’s revenge tragedy Valentinian, in a text that readily identifies Rochester’s revisions Presents the poems in versions that were current during Rochester’s lifetime, allowing the reader to experience the poems as Rochester’s contemporaries did Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the last twenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously were unavailable for study
Book Synopsis The Debt to Pleasure by : John Wilmot
Download or read book The Debt to Pleasure written by John Wilmot and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and in the words of those who loved and loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with startling, ribald and riotous clarity.
Book Synopsis The Farce of Sodom: Or the Quintessence of Debauchery by : John Wilmot
Download or read book The Farce of Sodom: Or the Quintessence of Debauchery written by John Wilmot and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farce of Sodom is a sexually explicit play which satirizes the reign of Charles II of England during the Restoration of the English monarchy. Explicit and uncompromising in tone, this send-up of the Royal Court grossly exaggerates the rumors surrounding the court of the king. We witness the homosexual King Bolloximian ban ordinary sexual intercourse in his kingdom, decreeing that only anal intercourse be permitted among the entire population. The excesses of the wealthy are shown in a sequence of erotic acts in a court preoccupied with luxuriating in debauchery. Eventually the nature of the acts the wealthy are consigned to perform upsets enough members of the court, and King Bolloximian is violently deposed. He and his closest companions are then consigned to hellfire. Banned for centuries, during recent years The Farce of Sodom has attracted renewed appreciation, with a version of the drama staged at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival.
Book Synopsis A Profane Wit by : James William Johnson
Download or read book A Profane Wit written by James William Johnson and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.
Book Synopsis Some Passages in the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester by : Gilbert Burnet
Download or read book Some Passages in the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester written by Gilbert Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rochester written by Marianne Thormählen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new study of the notorious Restoration rake-poet, set in his intellectual context.
Book Synopsis The Book of Restoration Verse by : William Stanley Braithwaite
Download or read book The Book of Restoration Verse written by William Stanley Braithwaite and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid by : Maggie Kilgour
Download or read book Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid written by Maggie Kilgour and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.
Book Synopsis The Complete Works by : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Download or read book The Complete Works written by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by : David M. Vieth
Download or read book John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester written by David M. Vieth and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Rt Honorable John Earl of Rochester, by : Robert Parsons
Download or read book A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Rt Honorable John Earl of Rochester, written by Robert Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poems on Several Occasions by : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Download or read book Poems on Several Occasions written by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Countess and the King by : Susan Holloway Scott
Download or read book The Countess and the King written by Susan Holloway Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Sedley lived by her own rules and loved who she pleased- until she became the infamous mistress of King James II... London, 1675: Born to wealth and privilege, Katherine is introduced to the decadent court of King Charles II, and quickly becomes a favorite from the palace to the bawdy playhouses. She gleefully snubs respectable marriage to become the Duke of York's mistress. But Katherine's life of carefree pleasure ends when Charles II dies, and her lover becomes King James II. Suddenly she is cast into a tangle of political intrigue, religious dissent, and ever-shifting alliances, where a wrong step can mean treason, exile, or death at the executioner's block. As the risks rise, Katherine is forced to make the most perilous of choices: to remain loyal to the king, or to England.
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book So Idle a Rogue written by Jeremy Lamb and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, is synonymous with excess. In this biography, Jeremy Lamb examines time the nature of Rochesters alcoholism and its implications for the man and his poetry.
